Improvement in fruit or preserve jars



A. GUMMER. Fruit or Preserve Jar.

Patented June 3,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT GUMMEB, OF OMRO, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT OR PRESERVE JARS.

Specificaticn forming part of Letters Patent No. %16,036, dated June 3, 1879; application filed August 8, 1878.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that 1, ALBERT GUMMER, of Onro, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvcnents in Fruit or Preserve Jars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to fasten the cover to a fruit or preserve jar by the use of a fiexible button or bar, elastic enough to insure security to the fastening. I do this by making the jar with cars or lugs exteuding above the cover, and formiug a lip or notch on top, under which slips the cover and also the ends of the button or fastening-bar, the lugs being pierced"'wth holes for a pin on the fast enin g-bar to prevent the bar from being pushed out sidewise.

There may be one pin or two-that is, one in each end of the bar. They are' inserted after the ends of the baiare turned under the lugs. To further secure the cover the pressure of the elastic bar is assisted by an elastic Washer or hearing under it.

Fgure 1 is a section of the device. Fig. 2 is a plan.

A is the cover of the jar. B is the fastening-bar, which may be either straight-sided, with a pin, F,-in the end, or diniuishing in size from the center each way, as shown in Fig. 2. This bar is made suficiently thin to spring,` or operate as a flexible bar.

0 is a ceutenfin, holding the bar B, which 4 being turned and forced under the Iugs D the cover is tightened. E is a perforation for the ALBERT GUMMER.

Witnesses R. WEBB, J. H. CASWELL. 

